Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national, increasingly so. ... The forces are violent and imposing. ... It is the uncertainty which political action threatens which paralyzes economic efforts in this world recovery. . . . Even economics may be willing to play a hand with deuces wild but it has not yet learned how to play when half the pack may be declared wild at any moment. . . . "If political forces must be guided by a vision of the unattainable, economic forces must be guided always by a vision of the attainable. The problem of reconciling the two is the most immediate and difficult in the world." An immediate result...
...claim against the Government, vainly pressed it during his lifetime. Last week's news was revival of the claim by Coopwood descendants. After the Government seized the Coopwood camels, they were turned loose in Arizona where they thrived, propagated. In 1870 a Nevada saltminer rounded up 25 to pack his wares in the Carson River district. In 1895 two carloads were shipped to Chicago for exhibition. A few were still visible in 1905, may still be extant...
Buying eggs and potatoes en route (Minister Johnson leading a sad-eyed pack pony) they went along the borders of Shansi province, whither a round-faced young engineer named Herbert Hoover took his bride while he surveyed mineral deposits...
...punctually Editor Aymard and Cartoonist Sennep turned up arm-in-arm in La Salle des Pas-Perdus (the hall of lost footsteps) in which journalists and deputies pace. They were set upon by a pack of Socialist statesmen. Elderly Editor Aymard jerked a dog whip from his pocket, laid about him. Deputy Barthe, a questor of the Chamber, rushed up in an attempt to preserve order as was his duty, caught the whip full across his face...
...Thursday), prime defender of the faith (Catholic Essays, St. Francis of Assisi). Author Chesterton gave a series of lectures on Victorian literature and history. Last week, when it was time to pack up and leave South Bend, Ind., he became effusively grateful at the recognition with which the institution recognized his labors: an honorary LL. D., given by the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, president, at a special convocation of the faculty...